apparat

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11
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13
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7

Definition of apparat

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
    “The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Latin parō Latin apparō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin apparātusder. Russian аппара́т (apparát)bor. English apparat Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.

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